If you’re not in the PlayStation Now beta (or if you’re not American like me) but want to see what the service looks like, a real treat leaked in the form of a full fledged video walkthrough of the current beta.
The video starts from the launch of the service and basically goes through everything there’s to see, doing a connection test, browsing the games catalog and even loading and playing a couple games (Puppeteer and Saints Row: The Third).
PlayStation dominated cloud gaming users throughout 2021, beating Microsoft's xCloud streaming by over 10%, but Xbox swings back at PlayStation in 2022.
“In 2022, Microsoft took the lead with 60-70% of total MAUs”
From 20-30% up to 60-70%? That’s some crazy growth. Probably thanks to Fortnite.
What a clickbait headline. Why mention 2021, when the tides turned in 2022 for the obvious reason of one company making the Cloud service one of their biggest marketing pushes throughout the entire year while the other company was able to promote the games they had coming out?
And it's imprudent to suggest crazy growth when we only know proportions - did Xbox grow its proportion by attracting from the competitors' bases, did their marketing pay off and attract new users, or did cloud gamers on competitors just not play as much? The MAU figures don't point to shifts as significant as the Cloud proportions do, and Microsoft's lack of raw subscriber numbers that they happily boasted about in 2021 is telling too.
The PlayStation Brahs:
"Playstation Now will soon cease as exist as it combines with PlayStation Plus to be one super subscription, titles that won't carryover to the PlayStation Plus revamp will begin to leave the service in May."
Wait, what? I thought PS+ premium would carry over the games from PSNow?
Also this basically leaves MGS4 dead in the boneyard unless you play via RPCS3…
It's actually a lot of games that will leave at the same time.
Probably to leave some space for the PSP games that are gonna be added to the premium service.
As for MGS4, I would expect Konami to be behind the move.
Ah, yes. Bask in the "service" era. Where what you see today, is not what you'll see tomorrow, thanks to an overcomplicated system.
The "service", is simply, off the charts.
So when games leave PS Now, it's a huge issue but when games leave GamePass it's just fine? All subscription services have games / movies leave all the time.
Get PS Plus Premium at half off the price by subscribing to PS Now for 12 months! Sony has pulled the annual offer on PSN, but here are live links offering it for US and UK.
Umm ever consider it will probably just give you the basic ps plus for one year and you will need to upgrade to get the premium one?
They could give it to us for a dollar to get those numbers up before it launches.
Just kidding.
Don't let the link open in the app, it doesn't work. Open it in a web browser and it will work
The link in the article goes to a page that says "Not available for purchase." When I click on the link from the Twitter post, it works though. https://twitter.com/Wario64...
I love the potential, it works fantastic for me, the only problem is i dont ever really touch my PS3 anymore.
After getting my PS4, my PS3 just feels to slow. I cant wait until this comes to the PS4 and vita.
1)They just need to keep working on those loading times.
2)Some good pricing
3)Profit?!?!?
Load times are awful and they are still avoiding the pricing I see.....glad to see $ony avoiding the issue at hand.
If it works well, I can see services like this killing the rental markets. So much more convenient to rent and "almost instantly" play. Would be nice if it works for new games on next gen consoles too. Be great to rent a game to see if you like it before buying. I don't see it as a solution for BC unless they set up a program where games you already own are free to rent, but as a rental service I think it has a ton of potential.
Questions that need to be answered:
1. How much is the subscription
2. How much bandwidth is required
3. How much does latency play a role
Ps Now is cool but..
I love the Xbox One, its the greatest system.
Soon i want to play Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Croc, Gex, etc.
How i miss some platformer series.